Video: Former NASA administrator Dr. Michael Griffin introduced as new University of Alabama in Huntsville eminent scholar

HUNTSVILLE, AL - Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin was introduced on the campus of the University of Alabama in Huntsville Wednesday as the man who will help make UAH "the Cal Tech of the South."

Griffin is the university's newest eminent scholar, hired Tuesday by the University of Alabama system board of trustees. He will begin teaching on campus in the fall but be on the job before then, officials said. Read more about Griffin in today's Huntsville Times.